The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge, but because it dribbles out in news stories about this specific incident or department, the reports never adequately describe an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government and also trashing the global economy, international alliances and relationships, and the national and global environment in ways that will have downstream consequences for decades and perhaps, especially when it comes to climate, centuries…
…Across the branches of government, the services that are supposed to protect us – nuclear stockpile monitoring, cybersecurity, counter-terrorism – are being undermined, understaffed or trashed. A different kind of protection that consists of public health, vaccination programs, food safety, clean air and water, social services, civil rights and the rule of law is also under attack. The federal government that serves us is being starved while the federal government that serves the Trump agenda and the oligarchy is glutting itself on taxpayer money…
…It’s the antidemocratic weaknesses in our system that created the vulnerabilities that let this happen…
Toddlers are usually quick learners.
& innocents
Yanks certainly aren’t.
I don’t think you understand what Yanks means
In my part of the world, it means “Americans”
Agreed, but that is a huge generalization to a large population. I am part of it, but I certainly don’t feel I have much influence in shifting political power to something that isn’t crazy and leaning authoritarian.
Do you have that kind of influence in your country?
My country had compulsory voting, which has prevented the crazies on the fringes, or predatory groups who pour money into the campaigns of politicians that they can control from rising to power
Our highest court has made sure that what you described by the crazies is how our government is controlled.
Oh, I know
America has always been a backwards, corrupt and hateful shit hole
The myth about how America came to be is lapped up by yanks, because they’re indoctrinated from birth, and if they eventually learn the reality, it’s rare for them to be able to think their way past a lifetime of propaganda
As opposed to every other European colony, that are totally at-grips with the genocidal horrors they inflicted on the people they displaced?
A yank is part of the northern states.
Its historically used by brits to refer to Americans in general.
That’s fine. It also groups in confederates, which are the opposite of yanks. But whatever.
To the rest of the world, it’s just another stupid 'Murican
We get the “Yankee” thing
We don’t care though
You’re all “yanks”
We know you’re not all stupid and worthless, but too many of you are, and we wouldn’t care, but’ Murica makes their stupidity the rest of the world’s problem
You’re not much brighter, buttercup.